Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.